Baseball Almanac is pleased to present a comprehensive chart of every College of the Canyons (COC) alumni who played baseball at College of the Canyons AND made it to the Major League level.
"After the game, one of the writers told me I was the first rookie to start a World Series game in almost 30 years (since Joe Black for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1952). That shows the kind of guts Dallas Green had as a manager. You'd have to say that was one of the more memorable games of my career, though I might not have realized it at the time. And it was my only World Series appearance in 14 years." - Walk, Bob. The Game I'll Never Forget. Baseball Digest. March 1995.
College of the Canyons
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# | MLB Player Name | Dates Played | Debut | Box |
1. | Bob Walk | 1975 - 1976 | 05-26-1980 |
2. | Shawn Barton (Nevada, Reno) | 1982 - 1983 | 08-06-1992 |
3. | Jeff Wetherby | 1983 - 1984 | 06-07-1989 |
4. | Roland de la Maza (California) | 1990 - 1991 | 09-26-1997 |
5. | Dana Eveland (Hill) | 2003 - 2003 | 07-16-2005 |
6. | Jacob Lopez | 2018 - 2018 | 08-14-2023 |
# | MLB Player Name | Dates Played | Debut | Box |
COC MLB Players | Research by Baseball Almanac |
The College of the Canyons baseball program started in 1971, by then head-coach Mike Gillespie who went on to coach at USC and was inducted into the College of the Canyons Cougar Athletic Hall of Fame in January. Bob Walk was the first former Cougar to make it to the Major League level.
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The three time state champion Cougars play there home games at Cougar Field. The ballpark has a natural grass surface, press box, seating for seven-hundred (700), and picnic style seating along the first base line.